Mary Daugherty is a DMA student in choral conducting at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the Diversity-In-Action intern for the NYC Choral Consortium, and a research fellow for the Institute for Composer Diversity. Recent research includes an extension of Dr. Marques Garrett's 'Beyond Elijah Rock; Non-Idiomatic Music of Black Composers', and her own project, 'Native American Composers; how to celebrate and incorporate the music of Indigenous people.' When Mary is not conducting or researching, she enjoys teaching piano, singing, cooking, and traveling with her husband, Andrew..